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Could your doctor be a "terrorist"?
alledan
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Washington-AP -- Some small towns are complaining bitterly about a decision by the Agriculture Department to cancel a program that has helped hook them up with foreign physicians.The Ag Department says it's had to scrap the program because some of the doctors have showed up on the government's watch lists aimed at keeping out terrorists. It's also concerned about fraud. Some of the people who get waivers aren't who they say they are, aren't where they're supposed to be, and aren't doing what they were approved to do.Under terms of their visas, foreigners who come to the U-S for medical training have to go home unless they agree to work in places that have a hard time finding doctors. Over the past eight years, the department has arranged three-thousand of the medical marriages.In some cases the foreign doctors have been the communities' only source of primary care.